"Crown City" launched by Moore Dry Dock Co is for carriage of vehicles and 500 passengers by San Diego and Coronado Ferry Co; length bp 230 ft; breadth, hull molded 46 ft; depth molded 17 ft 3 in.; vessel was prefabricated in eight sections of approximately 50 tons each; each 102-in. Coolidge propeller will be driven by Westinghouse 1000 hp electric propulsion motor; power is furnished by three 300-kw generator sets and three 515 hp Atlas Imperial Diesel engines. (See also Diesel Progress v 20 n 12 Dec 1954 p 36-7; Mar Eng v 49 n 4 Apr 1954 p 58-60)
West coast ferry built in floating drydock
Motorship
Motorship ; 39 , n 8
1954
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
West coast ferry built in floating drydock
Engineering Index Backfile | 1954
West coast ferry built in floating drydock
Engineering Index Backfile | 1954
Engineering Index Backfile | 1924
Engineering Index Backfile | 1946
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1909
|